3.31.2010

As you can see the weather has been a bit iffy these past few days. Not much venturing into the woods, so we have resorted to inside activities, like egg dyeing. We tried to marbleize our eggs but we were unsuccessful. Probably because we used brown eggs instead of white, but I am happy with the richness the brown eggs provided. I think we will try again with white eggs to see if it works better. Also, if you try this technique use a light colored dye as a base and a darker for the marble affect.

And we've also been having lots of yummy meals to supplement the cruddy weather. Who would've thought that eggless quiche could be so good.

3.26.2010

If you haven't been to Target yet to check out the Liberty of London collection, you should go (run) because I'm sure supplies are very limited. I was pleasantly surprised to find these cuties. Love the small one for my coffee grounds.

3.22.2010

My favorite images of this weekend. The weather has been beautiful here lately, it's so nice to get out and hike around. Hopefully it continues to stay that way. And I had to include my kitties, must be rough being them.

3.17.2010

3.16.2010

My husband has a serious sweet tooth, so this results in him making lots of yummy desserts. He made these for us last night, a classic favorite. Makes approximately 14-16 cinnamon rolls.

Ingredients for cinnamon rolls:

put these ingredients in small bowl and let rise (about 10 min.)-

-a smidgen under a 1/2 cup warm water

-1 T. yeast

-2 tsp. sugar

in separate bowl mix-

-1/4 cup oil

-1/4 cup sugar

-2 eggs

-1 tsps. salt

-1/2 cup water

-3 cups flour

Add first bowl (with yeast) to mixture after third cup of flour. Knead in last two cups of flour by hand. Let raise one hour. Separate raised dough into two balls. Roll them out into rectangles, generously cover flattened dough in cinnamon and sugar. Bradin also spread Nutella on part of the dough (which was very tasty). Starting from a corner tightly roll the dough into a log. Then cut evenly sized pieces and place on greased baking sheet.

Preheat oven to 425 and bake for 7 min. or until golden brown. And lastly, top with frosting.

Cut your scrap leather to the size you would like (again, mine was 15x1 inches), then cut two tear-dropped shapes out of felt to sandwich between leather.

Line the two felt pieces up in between the leather and sew them together very close to the edge. (My felt pieces were closer to the bottom of the leather so my feathers would be more off-center.) Then take one end of elastic and sew it to the other edge of leather. Before you sew the other end of elastic measure on your head to see how tight you want the headband to be. After you have the desired length, sew other end to leather.

Before you glue on the feathers lay them out to get a general idea on how you want them placed.

Place glue on spine of feather and fill up the felt until you have desired fullness. The glue does dry very stiff so make sure you are not getting too much glue on the feathers.

To cover the ends of feathers cut out smaller tear-dropped shape, then sew it to the headband.

Here is the finished product, very easy and a fun accessory to add to your wardrobe.